Joseph bukthoul



(No Model.)

J. BURTH0UL. EAT SWEAT.

No. 359,772. Patented Mar; 22, 1887.'A

ilnifrrnn STATES PA'rnNr @trice JOSEPH BURTHOUL, OF BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.

HAT-SWEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part o Letters Patent No. 359,772, dated March 22, 1887.

Applicalion tiled December 7, ISSG. Serial No. 220,8111. (No modehi Patented in Belgium July 9.7, 1986, No. 74,008; in France July 30, 1586, No. 164,016; in England August 1i, 1856, No. 9,950, and in Italy October 19, 1886, No. 8,373.

To all whom it 1p1/tty' concern:

Be it known that 1, Josnrn BUnTHoUL, a citizen of the Kingdom of Belgium, residing at Brussels, Belgium, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Leathers or Sweatands, (for which Leiters Patent have been granted in Belgium, No. 74,008, dated July 27, 1886; in England, No. 9,950, dated August 8, 1886; in Italy, No. 8,373, dated October 19, 1886, and in France, No. 164,916, dated July 30,1SSO;) and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Referring to the drawings, Figures 1 and 1 show my improved sweatband for hats in elevation. Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views thereof ready for applying to a hat, and Fig. 4.- shows the sweat-band applied to a hat.

In the manufacture of hats, each hat, when completed, is usually measured and the size thereof indicated by a label applied io the sweat-band, or when a hat is to be made to order the head has to be measured in order to secure a good iit. These measurements are made by speciallyconstructed apparatus, and necessitate care and time,

The object of this invention is to provide means whereby this labor may be dispensed with and the size of the hat indicated by the sweat-band when iitted therein and secured thereto, or when such aband is placed around the head and then cntto length for the purpose of ascertaining the size of the hat to be made.

To these ends the invention consis'fts in the inode of and means for attaining the results aimed at and above referred to, substantially as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Any desired standard of measure may, of course, be employed. In the drawings 1 have employed the centimeter standard, and shall conne myself thereto in the description of the invention. rI he sweat-bands are made of such length as to tit any size hat usually made. Supposing, now, that this standard size of swcatband B is seventy centimeters long, as

in Fig. 1, l apply to each end thereof, near one edge, lineal-nieasure indices Z), equal to ten centimeters, commencing at said ends with the 0 or 10, and at the longitudinal center of the band l apply a lineal-measure index indicating the length of the band minus the snm ofthe indices at the ends thereof.

The sweat-band shown in Fig. 1 is seventy centimeters long; hence the center index, c, will be 50, since 10i-10+ 50:70.

Of course any desired standard of length may be employed and any desired number of lineal indices applied at the ends, the result being the same. As an illustration, supposing the standard length to be eighty centimeters and the indices at the ends to indicate twenty centimeters, the central index, c, will in this case be 40, since 20-120{-40:S0, and

so on.

lt is obvious that if this band is fitted into a hat of such size that the ends of the band will exactly meet, the indices will indicate that the interior circumference of the band is seventy centimeters, since 104-10}-5070. If, however, the band is fitted into a hat of smaller size, the ends thereof will overlap, and by cutA ting the overlapping ends so that the edges of the cut band will exactly meet, the band will again indicate the size. For inst-ance, as shown in Fig. 2, a length of six centimeters has been cut off from one end of the band and a length of seven centimeters from the other end, so that the size of the hat, as indicated by the band, will lieti-3 50 :57 centimeters. lfthe centimeter-scale is subdivided into fractions, as shown, we obtain units and fractions.

From an inspection of Fig. 8 it will be seen that a length of six centimeters was cut oit' from one end ofthe band and a length of six and one-half centimeters from the other end, the band indicating a size of 4-t3i-'V50257i centimeters.

1f the standard length of the sweat-bands used by a manufacturer and the lineal-measure indices at thc ends of the hand are known, it will be sufiicient to ascertain the size of the liatz'.e., the inner circumference of the bandA to deduct from the total length of the band the length out therefrom. For instance, if the standard band has seventy centimeters and the end indices ten centimeters each, if five 'which will indicate the size of the head with great accuracy. The same results may he obtained by extending the lineal-measure indices over the whole sweat-band, again starting with the lineal index of greater value from the ends, as shownin Fig. 2, or, in other words, starting from the longitudinal center of the band with the lineal-measure index of least Valueas, for instance, O-the indices of each half of the band indicating the length thereof. In this figure the sweatmband has also a length of seventy centimeters, for 35-1-35170; hence, if any portion thereof is cut away, the addition ofthe adjacent figures at the ends of, the band, when joined, will give the size.

Let it be supposed that-the sweat-band, Fig. 2, be cut off at 30 at one end. The ends, when joined, will indicate 30|35::65; or, if eut at both ends at 33, then the size indicated will be 334-33, or sixty-six centimeters, and so on.

I do not desire to claim herein the arrangement of the linealqneasure indices last above described, and shown in Fig. 2,as substantially such arrangement of measure indices have heretofore been applied to tailors measures.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the sweat-band applied to a hat, H, and the size indicated thereby is 3+3+50:56.

It will be seen that by the means described the usual measurement of the hats after the sweatband is applied thereto is dispensed with, and that the measurement of the head to select a hat that will fit it or to have ahat that will tit it made to order is greatly facilitated.

It will ot' course be understood that the iu- Vention is not to be coniined in its application to hats only, as it maybe applied to any other purposes where circumferential measurements are to be made-as, lfor instance, for measuring the hand for gloves, Sic-nor is lit neces sary that in the taking of such measurements a strap, tape, or otherflexible and more orless extensible material should be employed, as it is obvious that a hoop or band of metal or of other elastic non-extensible material whose ends are capable of sliding upon each other and expos ing to View the scale thereon may be employed.

Having now described :my said invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with a hat, of a sweatband provided at each end with a similar series of lineatmeasureindices extending' lfrom the ends toward the longitudinal center of the band, each series of indices commencing at said ends with the index having the highest Value,l and alineal-measu-re index at the longitudinal center indicating thelength of the baud minus the sum of the lineal-measure`indices at the ends thereof, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. In the manufacture of hats, the mode of ascertaining and indicating the si ze of the hat-s without measuring and labeling the same, which consists in delineating on a sweatband of a given length two similar series of linealmeasure indices extending from the ends of said band to the longitudinal` center thereof, arranging the indices in asucccssively decreasing order from said ends, delineating at the longitudinal center of the band a unit lineal measure indicating theV length of ther band minus the surn of the indices at the ends thereof, and securing the band to the hat so that :its ends will meet, cutting off the excess 

